When Isiah Kiner-Falefa learned Monday night that there was a good chance he was going to be called up to the Texas Rangers, it was just turning Mai Tai hour in Hawaii.
Honolulu is where he's from and where his parents still live, and, as luck would have it, airlines run nighttime flights that can get two anxious parents to DFW Airport in time to see their son make his MLB debut the next day.
But Fili Falefa and Kimberly Kiner had gotten a jump on what might be ahead. They knew, thanks to the wonders of Twitter, that Isiah had been pulled from the game at Triple A Round Rock after his first at-bat and that Rougned Odor had left the Rangers' game because of a left hamstring injury.